NASA ups price of a private stay aboard the ISS to reflect true expense of keeping tourists alive in space Fancy a stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS)? It is about to get a lot pricier for future private astronaut missions. NASA last published its commercial pricing policy in 2019, and price tags included $22,500 per person per day for supplies such as food, air and exercise equipment. Life support (and using the …
> I think it would be cheaper to visit after I'm dead
Indeed. Why not save even more money and eliminate the effort of actually going up in a rocket, being dumped out the airlock and your body slowly coming back to earth as its orbit decays? You could have a Viking-style funeral in a boat anchored just off the Maldives and then you wouldn't have to worry about where to crash land.
... with blackjack. And hookahs.
Futurama aside, I can't help but think that space tourists would be better served by a made-for-purpose space station, one with larger internal volumes to practice acrobatics in, and fewer scientific experiments to bump into. With better mood lighting, too.
Yeah. Keep that bloody noise down, you inconsiderate louts. And don't believe all that nonsense about in space no-one can hear you scream. And stop painting graffiti on our station.
Bloody party animals, think it's a damn picnic up here, some people have to work in the morning, mutter mumble...
When the only option was a tightly controlled selection process and the only was up there was via US or Russian government sanctioned flights, it was great publicity. But now anyone who can afford it can buy a ride from SpaceX and only have to pay NASA for room and board.
Whatever happened to the Bigelow Space Motel?
They have been around since 2016 and include several ex-NASA employees. They are in a good position to embrace and extend ISS then separate from it when they have enough hardware to be independent. They have been in more specialised space news for a while. The success of Crew Dragon gave them a product that they can sell to the public and this has got them a more prominent position on tech/science news sites.
Their name has come up on The Register repeatedly before but you would have needed to pay attention. They were not in the title and other names would draw your attention away from Axiom unless you already knew about them for some other reason.
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